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Kuoleman puutarha (The Garden of Death)
(upload.wikimedia.org)
Hugo Simberg (1873 – 1917)
1896
Watercolor and gouache
16 cm × 17 cm (6.3 in × 6.7 in)
Ateneum, Helsinki
Looks like a peaceful and happy place
The juxtaposition of death and life is really striking. For me especially the figure facing the viewer, how it's tenderly clutching the flowers to it's chest. The artist wrote that this painting represents, "the place where the dead end up before going to Heaven." There's a lot going on, on a lot of levels